Magazine - Classic Or Dud?

The info located on this page (between items on Testament and America):

EMI has announced the release of definitive CD editions of Magazine's four studio albums: Real Life, Secondhand Daylight, The Correct Use Of Soap and Magic, Murder And The Weather. Jerky Versions Of The Dream, the first solo album recorded by Magazine mainman Howard Devoto, is also reissued.

All five albums were originally issued by Virgin Records. Each CD has been newly remastered from the original tapes at Abbey Road.

The CD of each album is supplemented by the complete non-album tracks, drawn from the album's contemporary singles. Jerky Versions Of The Dream also features the Howard Devoto's never-before-issued John Peel session from 1983.

I also prefer getting *just* the album, I hate it when extra tracks are tacked onto the end. I want a single artistic statement, and nothing more, whenever I buy an album. The single exception to this is Ride's GBA, but I count those tracks as part of the album anyway so it's OK.

Listening to this whilst a little drunk is fucking fantastic. Matches my confused yet relaxed, confortable yet slightly depressed mood.

After a day's listening, I'd say that most of the album will stick. I've already noticed a comparison between the piano in the intro to 'Back To Nature' and that in Mogwai's 'Auto Rock', sigh. Which reminds me, I may have to re-evaluate Mr. Beast at some stage; I gave it an awful kicking after not too many listens...

Hurrah! And about bloody time too!

"I know all these songs. But very little ever actually sticks."

Ned, are you familiar with "Rainy Season" from the aforementioned solo album?

I'm going to give these guys a try again. Only a couple of songs have ever stuck with me, sorry to say

And....Ned?

Now Playing : I Wanted Your Heart. OMG, OMG, OMG!

This is as close as I get/as I ever get...

Somehow, I'd forgotten that Martin Hannett produced The Correct Use of Soap. Of the remasters, that's the one I'd want.

"Real Life" is great too.

Geir likes Real Life?!!!??!

Damn.

Great album btw, just listened to it.

Fantastic album...It seems to come out of nowhere - a true original.

i love the album with The Great Beautician In The Sky on it. the one every one raves about - correct use of soap, not quite so much. production is a bit too 80s pop sounding.

It's a crime that you can only get the Peel Sessions disc in the 3-disc box. As is often the case, many of these versions outstrip their studio counterparts.

The 3 disc box set was as the same price as a normal CD when I bought it. Maybe the price has gone up since then I suppose, dunno.

great performance clip on youtube of "song from under the floorboards" w/a seriously funky black bass player

today I bumped into you again
I have no idea what you want
but there was something I meant to say

As the day stops dead
at the place where we're lost
I will drug you and fuck you
on the permafrost

classic, absolutely

today I bumped into you again
I have no idea what you want
but there was something I meant to say

As the day stops dead
at the place where we're lost
I will drug you and fuck you
on the permafrost

Words to live by.

Totally forgot the line about drugging and fucking until I played that song on my radio show this past week. Hi there, FCC!

Great, but better than Wire? wtf no.

mick mercer linked to this band today: Gloria Mundi

Gloria Mundi - Myspace
http://www.myspace.com/gloriamundifansite

They released an album on RCA in 1977 ! and sounded a bit like Magazine. Were Magazine inspired by this band? did they ever tour together?

Eddie Maelov - vocals // Sunshine Patteson - keyboards, vocals// Beethoven - guitar// c.c. - sax// Mike Nichols - drums// Ice - bass//

Don't think there was a Gloria Mundi connection. I did buy a couple of their singles when they came out, but I thought of them more like Ultravox at the time, but slight more trad-rock band. Of course trad-rock was what Magazine (and Joy Division, Echo, U2 etc) added back into new wave.

I'm not sure GM even preceeded Magazine, at least in my attention. There were a couple of bands like that, punilux, Ricki and the last days, erm, and others....

Of the two UK tours I remember magazine doing one had Simple Minds supporting and the next had Bauhaus.

I only saw them once, at the Astoria in Edinburgh with Bauhaus (and local band Josef K). This would have been April 1980, I also remember it was actually my mate's 20th Birthday and he, years later, became mildly famous and once mentioned that gig as one of his all time favourites.

Incidentally, I just got tickets to go see Barry Adamson play in Glasgow, and so that's... gulp, 28 years since I last saw him.... wonder if he still looks as cool? I know I do (grin).

I like Eddie and Sunshine's later pop record on Survival. Somewhere in Europe is a gem of a song.

One of the members of the Monochrome Set, Jeremy Harrington, was also in Gloria Mundi. Just for the record.

Just for the record.

ahem

They're playing their first date since 1980 at The Forum, on Friday Feb 13. Excitement!

Who is playing guitar?

Robin Simon the obv choice, I suppose?

I came across them in my vinyl stacks last night and had a strange feeling about them as if someone had mentioned them to me recently but I couldn't place it. I'm glad to hear they're going to play.

Guitarist TBC, according to their Myspace. Also a Manchester date on Sat Feb 14.

http://www.myspace.com/magazineofficial

funny, soapy correctness always got the raves from critics back in the day, but i always preferred real life, and even secondhand daylight. great opener on soap, but too many average sounding songs later on.

Noko is playing guitar.

I wish I was.

I wish Pete Shelley was.

I could care less really but in this case no McGeogh = no credibility for real.

Is this likely to sell out early d'ye reckon? Cos I've got a ton of gigs this month already and would like to put off buying a ticket for this for a month or 2.

tickets PURCHASED
so excited

Any hint of further dates? Like in, say, Glasgow?

And Dr C - Noko?

Hmm, bit of a let down, the claim earlier was 'a manchester guitarist' and I was hoping for Vini Riley, expecting Johnny Marr and praying it wasn't Billy Duffy.

'Shot By Both Sides' will always sound like it was released today.

Rhythm of Cruelty and 'Song From Under the Floorboards' classic too, the latter for the opening lyrics

I am angry I am ill and Im as ugly as sin
My irritability keeps me alive and kicking

Shit - how could I forget 'The Light Pours out of me'?

I'm obviously not a hardcore Magazine um devoto...

Always preferred the other band.

magic murder and the weather may actually be my secret favourite, tho i haven't revisited any of them for a long while

i used slightly to know ben mandelson, mcgeoch's replacement -- he co-ran a record company whose records i often reviewed, and he was both a nice person and a very folk-scholarly person, which was probably not quite the right vibe for magazine but i liked it myself

awake much of the night with truly astonishing dental pain (on antibiotics, direct to root canal when I get home from work but work mean travel and I've got several days yet to go) and the music of magazine specifically the secondhand daylight album is helping. ty magazine, top group

Check out "Seconds to Last" by Colin Newman for more explicitly dental-themed post-punk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fME8qjXbV1I